Kisumu East · Nyalenda A, Kenya
Care for the Future
Integrated Project
One community. Four commitments — food, work, land, and childhood — building toward a future Nyalenda A can count on.
One community. Four commitments — food, work, land, and childhood — building toward a future Nyalenda A can count on.
Kenyan agriculture has modernized in pockets, but the average small farmer hasn't caught up — the tools on offer are too technical, or too expensive. Nearly half the population lives below the poverty line. Agriculture provides roughly a fifth of GDP and employs a large share of the workforce, yet maize yields run about 25% below the national average, and consumption of meat and eggs stays low.
The consequences land hardest on children: chronic malnutrition and stunting affect close to half the country's children, worst of all in remote areas where food supply depends almost entirely on local harvests. Meanwhile, youth unemployment runs high among the country's largest demographic group, income inequality is wide, and corruption slows the reforms meant to fix any of it.
"The solutions offered are rarely built for the farmer actually holding the hoe."
CFTFIP works on four fronts at once, because food, income, environment, and child safety are one problem, not four.
Raising food and nutrition security for children and expectant mothers by improving crop and livestock productivity, extending access to appropriate technology, and strengthening pest and disease control.
Strengthening small and medium enterprises in trade, agribusiness, communication technology, and the creative sector — including sports and entertainment — through entrepreneurship workshops that help young people build self-employment with real staying power.
Embedding resource efficiency, recycling, forest protection, drought-resilient crops, and climate-smart farming into daily practice.
Pushing accountability from local and national representatives, and confronting child labour, sexual exploitation, child marriage, and FGM — working with local government, law enforcement, and the community to remove children from exploitative situations and keep them safe. Research underpins the work throughout.
"Building sustainable ecosystems starts with community-driven accountability and local action."
An M&E plan — built with program staff from day one — sets out the logic model, theory of change, and monitoring indicators: goals and objectives, defined indicators, data collection methods and timeline, assigned roles, an analysis plan, and a path to donor reporting.
A running record of implementation progress.
Approved work plan vs. actual performance, with constraints and remedial actions identified.
A full account of implementation, with clear recommendations for corrective action.
Outputs, outcomes, the most significant changes of the year, and recommendations going forward.
CFTFIP is capital-intensive by design — this is what it costs to build something real.
| Item | Cost (KES) |
|---|---|
| Land procurement | 300,000 |
| Building offices | 700,000 |
| Office equipment | 250,000 |
| Legal permit & certification | 50,000 |
| Website creation | 20,000 |
| Labour | 150,000 |
| Community mobilization / participation | 100,000 |
| Water tank & installation (10,000L) | 110,000 |
| Inputs (seeds & livestock) for the community | 200,000 |
| Demo site establishment | 15,000 |
| Transport (motorbike) | 450,000 |
| Miscellaneous | 155,000 |
| Total | 2,500,000 |
Equivalent to approximately USD 25,000.
The project site has been set in Nyalenda A, within Kisumu East Sub-county — one of Kisumu's densely populated informal settlements. It's a community facing the same food security, income, and environmental pressures the four programs are built to address, at close quarters.
Informal settlements like Nyalenda A are where child exploitation and abuse are most rampant, and where poverty and neglect push children hardest toward risk. That's exactly why this location matters to our advocacy and food security work alike.
Photos from Nyalenda A and the project's early work — click any image to view it larger.
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CFTFIP exists to invite investors, stakeholders, and well-wishers to fund and shape a project too capital-intensive to build alone. Whatever your role — funder, partner, or neighbor — there's a place for you here.